The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-28
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Reverend Canon o Mahony. in a speech
recently delivered in Cork, charged GER
tain local government officials with sys-
tematically corrupting girls of tender
age. The Dublin frfem0n's .J0urn0l to
day endorses and ampliiies the charges
and demands that the guilty officials be
arrested. The Pail NAL gazette, in an
article on the subject, says il has inlorma-
tion that only one man, tried and trust.
ed agent of Dublin Castle, il implicated
in the matter. Four girls were his vic
tins, and they are now inmates of the
Convent OF the Good Shepherd at Cork.
The Morgan woolen mills, near Win.
chester, were entirely destroyed by fire
Monday night. Kern, Barr& Co. were the
owners. The origin OF the fire was acci-
dental; insurance $500 The loss was
much in excess of that amount
Mrs. NJ. A. Snowden, president of the
Confederate Home, al Charleston, y. c.,
has received a check for 81 900 from Mr.
W. W Corcoran, of Washington, as a
Christmas gift to the institute The money
will be used for the permanent endOw-
ment of the COrcOran scholarship i'm the
Confederate Home school
A fierce hurricane from the west ac.
c0mpanied by severe snow storm, pre-
vailed over the whole of Greece Monday
night Twenty-Five vessel were driven
ashore and wrecked in the gulf of Patras
Ia Justice and other Paris papers de-
mand that the government interfere TO
suppress the attempts Of the French syn
dicate to advance the price Of copper.
Aguadila, a small port of Porto Rica,
has suffered like Baracoa by huge
wave. Fifiy-three houses were swept
away. The wave destroyed the old ma
sonry in the cemetery, and eleven bodies
were washed out 10 sea and lost. Many
vessels were stOrmbOund The wave,
like the one at BaracOa, was due 10 a
nOrther.
Private letters received at the New
York Yacht Club contained the infOrma-
tion that challenge for the Americas
cup is on It's way from England 1t is
understood that the challenging yacht is
the cutter Trek
Morey Hale Barlow, descendent of
Nathan Hale the revolutionary patriot
executed as spy by the British, was
found dead Sunday in his room at 81
Lafayette Place, New York City, where
he dwelt as recluse for many years.
All efforts to settle the difficulty he.
tween the Allen Steamship Line and the
Grand Trunk railway having failed.
Captain Smith, manager Of the Allen
Line, announces that their steamers will
20 to Baltimore instead Of Portland after
next week.
The Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha Railroad Company has de-
clared diyidened of three per cent. on
the preferred stock, payable January 20
Books closed December 30 opened
January 20.
Rev Lyman Abbott has been selected
as pastor of Plymouth church At the same
salary paid Mr.. Beecher No definite
term of service has been fixed.
William Stance color sergeant in the
Ninth United States cavalry, was shot
dead from ambush Sunday night. As ne
was very strict disciplinarian, it is be-
lieyed that he was killed by one of his
own men.
The special correspondence of the
Baltimore Sun, who was sent to report
the papal jubilee ceremonies, arrived in
Rome Saturday. lie had in his charge
a gift from President Cleveland to the
pope. The present is copy of the Uni
ted States Constitution, beautifully en-
crossed and richly bound in book form.
Adyices from Massowah say that the
British mission to Abyssinia was unsuc-
cessful in its efforts TO induce King John
TO sue for peace, and that the Italians are
jubilant over the failure
The Spanish Government has decided
to celebrate the fourth centenary of the
discovery OF America.
Mr.. Gladstone, who left London Mon
day for the continent, received immense
oyations at the Euston and Charing
Cross Railway stations
At st. Clairsville, Ohio. the prisoners
in the county Jail oyerpowered the
TAILOR, Saturday evening, and four Of
them escaped.